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Danger flashing; Asia must ring-fence itself from Ukraine war spillover
A thousand days after the Ukraine war started, the conflict is heading into uncharted and dangerous waters. Asia must do everything it can to sidestep direct involvement.
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The ongoing war in Ukraine just passed its 1000th day – and is taking on frightening dimensions for the entire world.
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For those who attended the event on Nov 14, Professor Tommy Koh’s launch of his most recent book, My Journey Of Peace To Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania And Russia, provided an opportunity to reflect on the ongoing war in Ukraine – which just passed its 1000th day, and is taking on frightening dimensions for the entire world.
For the three Baltic states he travelled to in 1993 at the request of then UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, World War II really ended only when Russia, the Soviet Union’s successor state, finally evicted itself from their territories 30 years ago.
